Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 2 | After 4 attempts and 2 hours they finally got 568 kayaks strung together and held only by hands for 30 seconds before departing 5km down to Holme Pierrepont for a fun afternoon . |
| 3 | They believed in the Tsar ; socialism meant nothing to them ; in some cases they actually handed the ‘ troublemakers ’ over to the police . |
| 4 | Since volcanoes composed of similar rock types are also found in a range of climatic environments they also provide the opportunity to compare the effects of climate on the rate and nature of denudation . |
| 5 | Although upper class men varied their clothing rather more , according to what they happened to be doing , for formal public appearances they sometimes wore the toga . |
| 6 | Modernists never wrote stories , as that word is commonly understood , and to all public appearances they seldom read them . |
| 7 | Erm als other problems which arose from the outline land law was in its deliberate ambiguity er in its deliberate erm tt sort of ambiguity because it left reg it left the law to be interpreted by regional areas which meant that how that erm in some places they totally misinterpreted the law but the Communist Party had to have this flexibility because China was such a vast country and you could n't just impose one policy per se across the country . |
| 8 | Struggling to keep the door open to its largest source of foreign capital , China — particularly the southern coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian — has been bending over backwards to encourage new investment and calm investors they already have . |
| 9 | Obviously some things they probably have to buy , shoes and |
| 10 | At the civic receptions they still sang God Dave the King , but we were no longer Jolly Good Fellows . |
| 11 | But as large companies have big overheads and do not like risky ventures they often do not want to become involved . |
| 12 | For goodness ' sake , there 's some peelers they never accept . |
| 13 | Now , these are examples of positional isomers just using ordinary groups they only differ in the position of those functional groups , sorry , of those groups . |
| 14 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 15 | For simple statements they certainly apply , but Q. says that , when you begin to philosophise about the " why " and the " how " , the Romance words are required . |
| 16 | erm and of course , er , normal years they also earn quite a lot from exporting their cat |
| 17 | During these meetings they reportedly discussed the development of the Middle East peace process , direct talks between the PLO and Israel , the Palestinian intifada ( uprising ) and the fate of Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon . |
| 18 | The bivalves have long geological history , with a few doubtful species known even in Cambrian strata , but like many other molluscan groups they really become established and diverse during the Ordovician . |
| 19 | Like most other molluscan groups they rapidly diversified in the Ordovician . |
| 20 | For 35 minutes they actually dominated possession and position and Saracens seemed in a lot of trouble . |
| 21 | When prompted during discussion , some teachers conceded that by ‘ children ’ in some of these phrases they probably meant the boys . |
| 22 | In between these duties they still managed to have a lighter side , arranging dances at the Institute which became popular throughout the war , and their concert party entertained many during those dark days . |
| 23 | Writing about the last two jobs felt strange , largely because of the muddled emotions they still arouse . |
| 24 | As penniless brokers they often had to dissipate energy on make-do and mend activities . |
| 25 | If you go to buy a secondhand car these days they invariably try to sell you a guarantee or a warranty on it . |
| 26 | But they just in these days they just looked at them and said , Alright . |
| 27 | Erm again when I have bad days with these wrists they just give way , and this is not a mental thing at all , I mean I could be holding a , a glass or a cup in my hand or a , a , a dish of something for that matter , and the er the nerves just relax the muscle and out it goes , it 's n n I do n't know it 's going to happen , but it can happen . |
| 28 | It bit into their blank brains they hardly knew |
| 29 | These rooms they only have a certain |
| 30 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |